(CNN) -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined the manhunt for three escaped Indiana convicts at the request of state and local officials. Christopher Marshall, Jerry Sargent and Bobby Cockerell broke out of the Branchville Correctional Facility ...Read More
A federal judge in Miami sentenced Narseal Batiste, the ringleader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, to 13 ½ years in prison. Earlier this week, Mr. Batiste's four co-conspirators received sentences ranging from five to ...Read More
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson offered to pay $1,000 a month to one of three girls who had accused him of inappropriately touching her while she was involved in his St. HOPE Hood Corps program, the girl told federal agents during ...Read More
* Ringleader's co-conspirators get lighter sentences * Men accused of conspiracy to wage war against U.S. (Adds quote from U.S. Attorney) MIAMI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The ringleader of a group ofMiami men convicted of plotting to blow up Chicago's SearsTower and ...Read More
OZARK, Ark. -The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower. Ozark Mayor Vernon McDaniel and Police Chief Jim Noggle announced the ...Read More
LAS VEGAS—Nevada gambling regulators will get a share of money seized from a high-ranking Japanese organized crime figure. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the Nevada Gaming Control Board will receive $62,400, part of the nearly $600,000 seized in 2005 ...Read More
Microsoft says modded consoles are a haven for piracy
The console makers, including Microsoft, havepushed for international legislation banning modding, which they sayis driving piracy. The results were showcased in the recentarrest of a Cal State student by federal agents. The ...Read More
Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of a lawyer who is suspected of operating a huge fraud scheme. The law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt ...Read More
New York - Ex-New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to charges growing out of accusations that he traded influence for apartment renovations. Kerik, 54, admitted guilt of eight counts today before U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson in White ...Read More
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla — Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme. The firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt ...Read More
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have searched the Fort Lauderdale office of a prominent Florida lawyer in an investigation into his alleged "substantial" misappropriation of investor funds, his company partner said. Scott Rothstein, 47, of Fort Lauderdale firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt ...Read More
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Had state parole agents leafed through Phillip Garrido's federal parole file when they took over his supervision in 1999, they would have known his property near Antioch, Calif., didn't end at the backyard fence. They might have found ...Read More
Federal agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest in the slaying of a nun whose body was found in her home on church property. The FBI said it arrested one person ...Read More
DETROIT - Muslim leaders are preparing for the funeral of a Detroit imam who was fatally shot by federal agents after authorities say he resisted arrest and fired his weapon. The service for Luqman Ameen Abdullah was set for Saturday morning ...Read More
DETROIT — Friday prayers were intoned on schedule at the red brick two-story house on the west side that is a makeshift home for the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque.
But leading the prayers was a son of the mosque's imam, Luqman Ameen ...Read More
Ricardo Thomas, The Detroit News, via AP A group of men leave a house that was serving as the temporary home to the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, imam of the Masjid ...Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — More than 300 people were arrested Thursday and 200 more charged in a crackdown on a multi-state prescription pill pipeline, a bust that Kentucky officials said was the largest in the state's history. Police officers fanned out ...Read More
DETROIT - A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the United States was fatally shot yesterday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said. Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn were ...Read More
DETROIT -- A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said. Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn were trying to arrest Luqman ...Read More
SAN JUAN, P.R. (AP) — An explosion at a fuel depot ignited a fire on Friday that burned for two days, spewing thick, toxic smoke across the region and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. More than 100 federal agents entered ...Read More
Mexico has welcomed a massive US operation targeting Mexican drug gangs that included the arrest of 303 people and the seizure of tonnes of narcotics over two days of raids. The operation saw more than 3,000 federal agents and police officers ...Read More
